[gress]

How does it not? Operating in more than one country doesn't somehow exempt you from laws.

[wutbrodo]

Agreed, I don't think the global company/local laws mismatch is a difficulty that the government should be responsible for figuring out how to deal with, but something that a company who wants to operate globally needs to figure out.

The real complaint with this recent spate of European laws around the Internet is how incredibly stupid they've been.

[Guvante]

Because they don't have to operate in your country. Google can simply decide to no longer run any operations within their borders to avoid the law.

Heck they could potentially even have a subsidiary corporation whose sole purpose is to squat Google.es and redirect to Google.com/es/

[gress]

That would be a reasonable course of action for Google to take.

[seanflyon]

It is difficult to determine which parts of the internet are within a particular countries jurisdiction.